| To support schools and communities in creating asthma-friendly schools, the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH), at the CDC, has released “Initiating Change: Creating an Asthma-Friendly School”, a toolkit developed to help advocates at the district and school levels persuade people in their schools and communities of the importance of asthma-friendly schools. The toolkit includes a 13-minute video on “Creating an Asthma-Friendly School” as well as materials to help people plan and facilitate a showing of the video in their community or school and a science-based suggestions and tools for making schools more asthma-friendly. The toolkit and a link to a podcast of the video are now available on the CDC/DASH website at http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/asthma/creatingafs. A link to an on-demand webinar on “Marketing Asthma-Friendly Schools” is also available at this site. The webinar provides information on how asthma advocates can use the video and toolkit to encourage people to make their schools more asthma-friendly. To order the video (in DVD format), a CD-ROM of all toolkit materials, or a hard copy of the toolkit (which includes the DVD and CD-ROM) e-mail cdcinfo@cdc.gov or call 800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636). |
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